Below is a modern version of A Doll House:
The following plays will be fair game on the midterm:
A Doll House (mostly DVD)
Trifles
Fences (videos and text)
Crossing the Border
Death of a Salesman (videos only)
For these plays, know the names of main characters (i.e., Nora, Torvald, Troy, Cory, Rose), the playwrights, and major actors (i.e., Claire Bloom, Anthony Hopkins, Denzil Washington, Viola Davis). Know the plot and setting of plays. Note that Death of a Salesman is a memory play with flashbacks and no unity of place or time. Note that Fences is part of Wilson's Century Cycle.
The talk with Christopher Goodrich of Unexpected Stage Company will be on the midterm.
These terms will be fair game:
drama vs. theater (compare with film -- camera angles & composition of shots)
developmental theory (Kohlberg & Gilligan)
act, scene
plot (conflict; the narrative arc-- inciting action, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution/denouement; false closure, flashback, foreshadowing)
character (contrast; impact of action; impact of dialogue; impact of stage directions)
dialogue vs. soliloquoy
exposition
language
family dynamics vs. impact of culture & society & community
community vs. isolation
memory play
orality -- note that Troy is illiterate
theme -- how did I miss the central idea of a production?!
setting
blocking
stage directions
(more terms from photos)
Consider the developmental theories of Kohlberg and Gilligan:
See below for links to key videos:
Next these are the links to the videos of A Doll House we saw on the first day.
I am trying to find a modern dress version--and here is one!
Here is the infamous Mabou Mines version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHn2FxLJOoI
To help with Fences, here are links to Eyes on the Prize, a documentary from the late 1980s.
We watched the video below at the end of class today:
These links are to longer sections:
For more videos of Fences and Death of a Salesman, see the entry below:
http://en202.blogspot.com/2013/09/from-archives-fences-death-of-salesman.html
Here are some scenes from Fences.
Ah, I was able to find James Earl Jones and Courtney B. Vance from 1987!
Here is a juxtaposition of the 1987 and 2010 versions:
Let's look at the Black Theater Ensemble of Virginia's versions of scenes we looked at:
Here Troy explains why he had his affair with Alberta:
South Coast Repertory's scenes are here:
For Death of a Salesman, see these links:
We'll start with the Oberlin production starring Avery Brooks as Willy and Justin Emeka as Biff.
This video sounds much clearer on my new laptop!
Next is the clip of Willy and his sons at the restaurant. This is the 1980s TV movie with Dustin Hoffman and John Malkovich.
The clip below shows Willy's flashbacks where he sees his sons when they were young.
I do want you to see the end of the play, Willy's funeral:
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